Émile Gaudreault’s Surviving my Mother was tops on the domestic chart for the week of Nov. 2, though the dramedy failed to generate the same box office buzz as his 2003 hit Mambo Italiano.

Mother rang in $122,691 on 59 screens — including one each in Toronto and Ottawa — for a per screen average of just over $2,000 for distributor Odeon Films. It stars Caroline Dhavernas and Ellen David in a story about the complex relationship between a mother and daughter. The film expanded to Vancouver on Friday.

In comparison, Mambo grossed a strong $460,000 at the box office in its opening weekend back in the summer of ’03, for total earnings of $5.1 million. The coming-out comedy currently sits in eighth place on Telefilm Canada’s list of the most commercially successful films it has backed since 2001.

Meanwhile, David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises, at number two on the chart, is closing in on $3 million following the addition of another $39,229 for the week. It stands at $2.8 million after eight weeks in theaters.

Rounding out the top five are Seville’s Shake Hands with the Devil, followed by Christal Films’ drama Le Ring and comedy Les 3 p’tits cochons.